What's on the TV today?

Two interesting ones coming up this week:

2100 Thu 2 Feb BBC4 Bullets, Boots and Bandages Pt 1/3
2100 Sun 5 Feb BBC1 Bomber Boys

Thanks for the first one Idler I didnt know about it will have to catch up on iplayer.

Bomber Boys was a fab programme. It was really great for me because one of the veterans I know from 75 (NZ) Sqn was involved. I liked the balance of the programme. Of course the veterans, the Lancaster and the Dakotas were the real stars!

 

2000 Tue 14 Feb: Saving Private Ryan - The True Story. Ideal Valentine's Day viewing!

 

You lucky people !

Another chance to see Brian (Sapper) and I on the Yesterday Channel at 5 pm UK time
In the "After the war was won" documentary.
Don't blink, or you might miss me

Ron

 

You lucky people !

Another chance to see Brian (Sapper) and I on the Yesterday Channel at 5 pm UK time
In the "After the war was won" documentary.
Don't blink, or you might miss me

Ron

can't get this channel on freesat

 

10 minutes into The Dirty Dozen on C5.

'Scream you bitch'....Another Allied War Crime Tisk Tisk

 

Watched 'Run Silent, Run Deep' last night.
Never seen it before. Not a bad flick at all. Clark Gable, Jack Warden, Burt Lancaster, Don Rickles and a host of old Hollywood faces.

 

Watched 'Run Silent, Run Deep' last night.
Never seen it before. Not a bad flick at all. Clark Gable, Jack Warden, Burt Lancaster, Don Rickles and a host of old Hollywood faces.

Really good movie - Well acted!

 

After working 11 hours/Cooking myself some dinner, I am settling back to watch:

"The Guns of Navarone" on Foxtel.

 

Film4 Halls of Montezuma at 12:50 and at 3:05 the Colditz Story.

 

Tuesday 20 March Channel 5, 8pm
The Secret D-Day Disaster:Revealed

Exercise Tiger, a full scale rehearsal for the D-Day landings was carried out on Slapton Beach, Devon. What should have been a routine exercise turned into the Allies worst training disaster of the 20th Century.

 

I do wonder what might be newly revealed about Slapton Sands, I suspect most of us know a fair bit already but I will still record it.
8pm ITV1 Return to the Falklands looks to be a good one.

 

Will record thanks, was only talking about this to one of my customers a couple of days ago. Also of note is WW1 Topgun: Revealed, the following Tuesday at 8pm on ch 5 for you aircraft buffs out there, about a small band of engineers who turned the aeroplane into a weapon of war in 1914/18

 

Just watched a first-rate documentary on Commando Training and operational deployment in WWII.
Called Castle Commando it was shown on BBC2 let us hope it will be available on BBC i player.

 

was good wasn't it. That old boy of about 90+
who was the trainer, what a memory!

The only thing I would have liked would be to see
some current Royal Marines do an assault course
in 1943 era kit

very good doc though, enjoyed it a lot

 

Just watched a first-rate documentary on Commando Training and operational deployment in WWII.
Called Castle Commando it was shown on BBC2 let us hope it will be available on BBC i player.
Watched on BBC i player late last night, it was good wasn't it, well worth the BBC repreating again for those that missed it.

 

Quick 'heads up'.
The dig 1940 series is on all this week at 14.50hrs Yesterday Channel (Freeview Ch 10).

 

BBC4 tonight at 9pm: Storyville, The Real Great Escape. Based around the exploits of Roger Bushell and made by his niece.

 

Hey - for anyone interested, a new series on Channel 5 War Hero In My Family starts Tuesday 1st May at 20.00.
Series 1 - Episode 1
TV presenter Chris Tarrant and actress Lisa Faulkner go in search of their families' World War II heroes.
In this opening episode, presenter Chris Tarrant sets off an emotional journey to find out about his father Basil's role in the British army during World War II. He knows that Basil won the Military Cross, one of the highest honours a serving soldier can be awarded, but he has no idea what he did to deserve it - and, as the story unfolds, he struggles to come to terms with his father's heroics.
Meanwhile, actress Lisa Faulkner seeks out the story of her grandfather's involvement in the conflict, as a member of the RAF. 'Lelly', as she knew him, was her favourite grandfather, but he died when she was quite young. In the time that she knew him, Lisa never asked about his experiences, and now she wants to find out exactly what he did and the contribution he made to British history.

 

A 70th-anniversary television event telling the story of how the fall of Singapore in 1942 shattered myths, brought an empire to its knees, and changed the destiny of millions of people.

Part one looks at how Japan's lightning invasion of Malaya threatened the key British port of Singapore, igniting ethnic and political tensions, and tells how Scottish soldiers were at the heart of the city's defence



BBC Two - Singapore 1942: End of Empire, Episode 1